"History does not tend to the better, Doc, it does not, it does not. We imagine so because events have produced our gl…"

"“Yeah. ‘Environment’ was very big for a while. Ecology Now stickers on the windshields of cars belonging to hairy you…"

"Missile: A self-contained device which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon w…"

"One man, one vote: A legal doctrine requiring that, from time to time, old gerrymanders be replaced with new ones. Th…"

"As related, the bank was one of those eastern ones, with Roman pillars and cathedral dimness and, I suspect, a piece …"

"“We need a reserve of life, every kind of life,” he explained. “Today for the spirit—a glimpse of space and green. To…"

"I seek occasional relief in old books. They help me tell the transient from the enduring."

"Bombing: A method of warfare which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women…"

"Corruption rewards its favorites with jobs."

"The air was cold and smelled of earth. Birds twittered. “Beyond one or two hundred years back,” Havig once said to me…"